{"product_id":"avidly-reads-theory-9781479801008","title":"Avidly Reads Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs an avowed \"theory head,\" Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense of pride and identity for him and his friends: an idea of how to be and a way to live. Although Stein explains what theory is, this is not an introduction or a how-to. Organized around five ways that theory makes us feel--silly, stupid, sexy, seething and stuck--Stein travels back to the late nineties to tell a story of coming of age at a particular moment and to measure how that moment lives on now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, \u003ci\u003eAvidly\u003c\/i\u003e--an online magazine supported by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e--specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. \u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author's emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. \u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads \u003c\/i\u003einvites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. This is a story about the emotional lives of ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStein, Jordan Alexander:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJordan Alexander Stein\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the English department and the Comparative Literature program at Fordham University.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50566563004690,"sku":"9781479801008","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a279a757-9723-4480-99d7-1b5ab5a17235.jpg?v=1731902023","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/avidly-reads-theory-9781479801008","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}